Medieval category: 3965 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches. It was written in 1487 by a Dominican inquisitor, Heinrich Institoris, following his failure to prosecute a number of women for witchcraft, it is in many ways a highly personal document,...
Adventures of Ibn Battuta
A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times.
The Field of Blood
The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
A history of the 1119 Battle of the Field of Blood, which decisively halted the momentum gained during the First Crusade and decided the fate of the Crusader states
During the First Crusade, Frankish armies swept across the Middle East, capturing major cities and setting up the Crusader States...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2002
Each volume in this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation...
Defiant Priests
Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Two hundred years after canon law prohibited clerical marriage, parish priests in the late medieval period continued to form unions with women that were marriage all but in name. In Defiant Priests, Michelle Armstrong-Partida uses evidence from extraordinary archives in four Catalan dioceses to show...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Scholars have long been interested in the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon past can be understood using material written, and produced, in the twelfth century; and simultaneously in the continued importance (or otherwise) of the Anglo-Saxon past in the generations following the Norman Conquest of England....
by Philip Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The legend of Saint Patrick is irresistibly captivating-he drove the snakes out of Ireland, battled the druids, and used the three-leaf Shamrock to convert the pagan Irish to belief in the Christian Trinity. Yet, as so often happens, these stories are mere myths that fold under closer scrutiny. Snakes...
by Helen Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This short study of the history of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta, also known as the Knights Hospitaller, is intended as an introduction to the Order for academics working in other fields, as well as the interested general reader. Beginning with a consideration of the origins...
by Thomas A. Fudge
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The life and work of Jerome of Prague have been overlooked outside Czech historiography, but represent an important chapter in the understanding of late medieval European history. Thomas A. Fudge makes a case for the central importance of Jerome, peer of Jan Hus, by reconstructing his biography using...
by Rudolph M. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and an ascetic medieval saint examining her every desire? Rudolph M. Bell suggests that the answer is yes.
"Everyone interested in anorexia nervosa . . . should...
The Making of Romantic Love
Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a courtly culture that was already preoccupied with...
Printing and Prophecy
Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed book---not...
The Fourth Crusade
Event and Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The Fourth Crusade (1202-4) was one of the key events in medieval history
The fall of Constantinople to the Venetians and the soldiers of the fourth crusade in April 1204 was its climax. It ensured that Byzantium’s days as a great power were over. It equally ensured that westerners would...
The Friar of Carcassonne
Revolt Against the Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
In 1300, the French region of Languedoc had been cowed under the authority of both Rome and France since Pope Innocent III 's Albigensian Crusade nearly a century earlier. That crusade almost wiped out the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians whose beliefs threatened the authority of the Catholic...